Quotes 161 till 180 of 271.
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Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death.
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Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.
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My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.
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My wife is a writer. She grew up in Alaska. She told me she was moving to Boulder and that I could come with her if I wanted to. We were married at the time, so I chose to come with her.
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens.
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No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.
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No, I don't think it's fair to label Islam 'violent.' But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.
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Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.
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Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.
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Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.
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On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.
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One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.
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